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Union troops of 5th and 9th Corps receiving Thanksgiving rations during the American Civil War, c. 1864.

For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression

In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war.
by Ariel Knoebel via Atlas Obscura on November 22, 2018

'I'm Feeling Bad About America'

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.
by J. W. McCormack via The Baffler on November 1, 2018

The Double Battle

A review of David Blight's new biography of Frederick Douglass.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on October 24, 2018

Inherited Trauma Shapes Your Health

A new study on Civil War prisoners suggests that our parents’—and even grandparents’—experiences might affect our DNA.
by Olga Khazan via The Atlantic on October 16, 2018
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Civil War Memory

Historical understandings and myths about the Civil War's causes, meanings, and legacies still shape American culture and national discourse about the country's future.

Not Even Trump Wants to Praise Robert E. Lee

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on October 15, 2018

America's Few Latino Historical Sites Languish, Forgotten and Decaying

A makeshift memorial in New Mexico dedicated to Hispanic Union soldiers "looks like just a taco stand, without any tacos."
by Associated Press via NBC News on October 14, 2018
Lithograph titled "Kiss Me Quick" showing a man and a woman kissing. The woman has her hands on the hats of two children.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.
by Jeffrey Escoffier, Christopher Mitchell via NOTCHES on October 11, 2018
Woman invalid laying on a bed with a book.

The 'Father of American Neurology' Prescribed Women Months of Motionless Milk-Drinking

Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were both patients of this infamous rest cure.
by Abbey Perreault via Atlas Obscura on September 28, 2018

Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.
by Vanessa M. Holden via Black Perspectives on September 19, 2018

A House Still Divided

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.
by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on September 13, 2018
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The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave

What happens when the Patent Office doesn't recognize the inventor as a person at all?
by Matt Novak via Paleofuture on August 28, 2018
Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses Grant.
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Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.
by Martha Hodes via Made By History on August 27, 2018
Cigar ad from ca. 1879, in which exhaled smoke spells out "try one."

If You Smell Something, Say Something

City dwellers of the 19th century were dogged by a foul terror: miasma.
by Conevery Bolton Valencius via Distillations on July 31, 2018

"Though Declared to be American Citizens"

The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
by Andrew K. Diemer via Muster on July 11, 2018
Diagram of a Spencer rifle.

From Spencer Rifles to M-16s: A History Of The Weapons US Troops Wield In War

Muzzleloaders have evolved into smart-style automatic firearms in just 150 years.
by Richard S. Faulkner, Jeff Schogol via Task & Purpose on July 10, 2018

Ira Berlin, Transformative Historian of Slavery in America, Dies at 77

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”
by Harrison Smith via Washington Post on June 6, 2018

When Walt Whitman’s Poems Were Rejected for Being Too Timely

"1861" is just so 1861.
by Emily Temple via Literary Hub on May 31, 2018
Railworkers watch dignitaries on an approaching train.
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How Slave Labor Built the State of Florida—Decades After the Civil War

Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.
by Bryan Bowman, Kathy Roberts Forde via Made By History on May 17, 2018
Lithograph of Josiah Henson in his autobiography.

The Story of Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin'

Before Stowe's famous novel, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience.
by Jared Brock via Smithsonian on May 16, 2018
Drawing of Ann Reeves Jarvis carrying blankets in a hospital.

The Mother of Mother's Day

The American commercialized version of Mother's Day isn't what the founder intended.
by Allyson Shwed via The Nib on May 11, 2018

The Silent Type

David Blight reviews Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on May 6, 2018
A horse-drawn streetcar on Canal Street in New Orleans (ca.1860s).

The New Orleans Streetcar Protests of 1867

The lesser-known beginning of the desegregation of public transportation.
by John Bardes via We're History on April 28, 2018

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on April 18, 2018

The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862

While a far cry from full emancipation, it was an important step towards the abolition of slavery.
by Jessica Parr via We're History on April 16, 2018

The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep

The notorious union-busting agency has resurfaced in a telecommunications labor dispute, showing how it's adapted to the 21st century.
by Sarah Jones via The New Republic on March 23, 2018
Illustration of enslaved persons singing and dancing

Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.
by Donald Yacovone via Medium on March 6, 2018
Leander Woods’s gravestone in Nashville National Cemetery.

The Man Who Fought the Klan and Won

America loves a good scoundrel. We should remember this one.
by Betsy Phillips via Washington Post on February 8, 2018

One of History's Foremost Anti-Slavery Organizers Is Often Left Out of Black History Month

The Reverend Dr. Henry Highland Garnet may be the most famous African American you never learned about.
by Paul Ortiz via TIME on January 31, 2018
Drawing of a black man holding a shovel (out of frame).

Arlington Is More Than a Cemetery

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.
by Jackie Roche via The Nib on January 22, 2018

Inside the Story of America’s 19th-Century Opiate Addiction

Doctors then, as now, overprescribed the painkiller to patients in need, and then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on January 4, 2018
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